71-73 High Street / London Road
Sevenoaks
01732 450144
http://chequerssevenoaks.co.uk/
https://whatpub.com/chequers
Above postcard 1895. |
Above photo 1900s. |

Above photo, date unknown, the "Chequers" being near the sheep pens, on
the left is London Road and on the right is the High Street. |
Above photo, taken between 1921-37. |
Above photo, 1920s. |
Above photo, circa 1924, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. In the livery of
Bushell, Watkins & Smith's Black Eagle Brewery, Westerham. |
Above photo, High Street entrance 2009. Kindly sent by Debi Birkin. |
Above photo London Road entrance 2013 by Nigel Chadwick
Creative Commons Licence. |
Above Google image from London Road entrance, October 2014. |

Above signs, October 1993. Sowing the word Concordians and "Arma
Pacis Fulcra," meaning "Weapons of Peace." Concordans is actually a
Dutch word meaning a translation table that provides you with a
numbering system for counting. As the original use of a chequer board or
checker board in English was as a means of counting money (hence the
Chancellor of the Exchequer).

Above signs, October 2006.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com.
Above sign 2012.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com.
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In 1869-70 the pub was part of a consortium who were advertising their
goods of selling tea in response to grocers' selling beer and wine. (Click
for further details.)
The building was granted a Grade II listing on 13 April 1951.
In 1901 the pub was situated next door to a Coffee Tavern.
It has two main entrances, one addressed as London Road and the other as
High Street.
Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser 07 December 1906.
LICENSE TRANSFERS.
In the case of the transfer of the license of the "Chequer's Inn," High
Street, Sevenoaks, from Mr. Edwin Butler to Mr. Walter Shorter, the
chairman said he took it that the incoming tenant was only taking on
this trade for the first time.
Mr. Shorter replied in the affirmative.
The Chairman asked whether he had gone carefully through his agreement,
and if he understood exactly under what terms he held the house.
Mr. Shorter: I think so. I am satisfied with it at present sir.
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I have reference to another "Chequers"
addressed at Weald. This is not the same pub.
LICENSEE LIST
NEWMAN John 1828-32+
 
SEWELL Thomas 1851-71+ (age 44 in 1851 )
JENNER William 1871+ (age 56 in 1871 )
BARBER William Wright 1874+
BUTCHER William 1881+ (age 44 in 1881 )
REDMAN Robert 1882+
BUTLER Edwin 1891-Dec/1906 (age 49 in 1901 )

SHORTER Walter Dec/1906+
SHORTER Fanny Mrs 1913-18+
JEFFERY William Thomas 1922-30+
MILLER Douglas J 1938+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/Chequers.shtml
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
Census
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